on november 8, 2017, upon the 4^th anniversary of the establishment of china (shanghai) pilot free trade zone, pudong new area people¡¯s court released a white paper on the trials of cases involving the pilot free trade zone (november 2016 - october 2017)top 10 typical cases at a press briefing to sort outsum up its trials of cases involving china (shanghai) pilot free trade zone over the past year. in the meeting, the court also demonstrated the research results of big judicial data on these cases to journalists from xinhua news agency, liberation daily, stvpudong tv, etc.

according to the briefing, from november 2016 to october 2017, pudong new area people¡¯s court accepted a total of 33,708 ftz-related cases, which, from the perspective of case type, included 26,847 civilcommercial cases, 565 criminal ones, 12 administrative ones6,284 execution ones. among them, 31,761 were concludedenforced, including 25,736 civilcommercial cases, 565 criminal ones, 7 administrative ones5,453 execution ones.

mr. hu yongqing, vice president of pudong new area people¡¯s court, introduced that the court had always been committed to providing fairefficient judicial services for the construction of ftz. over the past year, with the construction progress of ftz, ftz-related cases also took on corresponding acteristicsvariations. first, the growth of cases acceptedconcluded slowed downthe number of litigating disputes tended to be stable second, the mediationwithdrawal rate of cases rosediversified ftz-related dispute settlement mechanisms achieved notable results third, the case-type structure was adjusted, reflecting the continuous improvement on the legal environment for ftz fourth, foreign-related cases tended to be diversifiedftz opening-up was further deepened.

the top 10 typical cases released at the meeting included 4 commercial cases, 2 ipr-related cases, 1 administrative case, 1 labor dispute case, 1 criminal case1 execution case. most of them were newdifficult, the trial results of which had a strong demonstration effect. among these cases involving disputes over equity transfer, securities brokerage contract, unfair competitionnon-competition, etc., dispute over unfair competition¡ªdianping v.s baidu was ed as 2014-2016 china¡¯s top 10 influential cases concerning internet rule-of-law2016 top 10 typical cases published by china trial. they have attracted wide social concernsare of great reference value for promoting the healthy development of the industrythe resolution of similar cases.

at the meeting, pudong new area people¡¯s court demonstrated the big data analysis system for ftz-related cases, which could automatically collectanalyze the information of distributiondetails of ftz-related cases,form an analysis database accordingly. meanwhile, it could discover newly emergingtypical cases in ftz in a timely manner based on such key words as main subject, key industrynew field to realize dynamic supervisioncontrol over ftz risks, thereby playing a positive role in promoting market transparencylegal construction in ftz.

 material of the press briefing: white paper of pudong new area people¡¯s court on the trial of cases involving pilot free trade zone (november 2016 - october 2017).doc